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11-24-2006, 04:29 PM
[align=left:551cbe056b][font=Arial Black:551cbe056b][color=red:551cbe056b][size=24:551cbe056b]156 bodies exhumed from mass grave in Bosnia[/size:551cbe056b][/color:551cbe056b][/font:551cbe056b]
SAMIR KRILIC
Associated Press - Nov 24, 2006
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061124.wbosnia1124/BNStory/International/home
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA — Forensic experts exhumed bodies of 156 people from a mass grave found recently in northeastern Bosnia that is believed to be connected to the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, officials said Friday.
In addition, “blindfolds, wires, wallets, watches of the victims of Srebrenica massacre from 1995 have been found in the grave,” said Jasna Subotic, spokesman for the district attorney in charge of genocide crimes, announcing the completion of the exhumation.
The grave in Snagovo village was found earlier in November after experts received a tip-off from an undisclosed source, said Murat Hurtic, head of Bosnia's Missing Persons Commission.
It is the seventh mass grave Hurtic's team has found near Srebrenica, the scene of Europe's worst massacre since the Second World War. Snagovo is about 50 kilometres north of Srebrenica.
Near the end of the 1992-95 Bosnian war, Bosnian Serbs overran Srebrenica, a Muslim enclave, which the United Nations had declared a safe zone, and killed as many as 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
Thousands of Srebrenica victims have been exhumed from over 60 mass graves around the town, and more than 2,500 of them were identified by DNA analysis.
The Srebrenica massacre prompted the UN war crimes court in The Hague to bring genocide charges against several suspects. Two main suspects, Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic and his army chief Ratko Mladic, remain at large.
Local and international experts have been digging for years in Snagovo, finding so-called “secondary” mass graves in the area just outside of the city of Zvornik on the border with Serbia.
Such graves contain bodies originally buried elsewhere, but later moved to the “secondary” location in an effort to cover it up. The remains are often only partial, as those involved in reburying them often used bulldozers to bring them up from the first grave.
At the Snagovo grave just excavated, Mr. Subotic said, 90 whole bodies and 66 incomplete bodies were exhumed.[/align:551cbe056b]
SAMIR KRILIC
Associated Press - Nov 24, 2006
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061124.wbosnia1124/BNStory/International/home
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA — Forensic experts exhumed bodies of 156 people from a mass grave found recently in northeastern Bosnia that is believed to be connected to the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, officials said Friday.
In addition, “blindfolds, wires, wallets, watches of the victims of Srebrenica massacre from 1995 have been found in the grave,” said Jasna Subotic, spokesman for the district attorney in charge of genocide crimes, announcing the completion of the exhumation.
The grave in Snagovo village was found earlier in November after experts received a tip-off from an undisclosed source, said Murat Hurtic, head of Bosnia's Missing Persons Commission.
It is the seventh mass grave Hurtic's team has found near Srebrenica, the scene of Europe's worst massacre since the Second World War. Snagovo is about 50 kilometres north of Srebrenica.
Near the end of the 1992-95 Bosnian war, Bosnian Serbs overran Srebrenica, a Muslim enclave, which the United Nations had declared a safe zone, and killed as many as 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
Thousands of Srebrenica victims have been exhumed from over 60 mass graves around the town, and more than 2,500 of them were identified by DNA analysis.
The Srebrenica massacre prompted the UN war crimes court in The Hague to bring genocide charges against several suspects. Two main suspects, Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic and his army chief Ratko Mladic, remain at large.
Local and international experts have been digging for years in Snagovo, finding so-called “secondary” mass graves in the area just outside of the city of Zvornik on the border with Serbia.
Such graves contain bodies originally buried elsewhere, but later moved to the “secondary” location in an effort to cover it up. The remains are often only partial, as those involved in reburying them often used bulldozers to bring them up from the first grave.
At the Snagovo grave just excavated, Mr. Subotic said, 90 whole bodies and 66 incomplete bodies were exhumed.[/align:551cbe056b]